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27-29 March 2006
University of York
United Kingdom
The conference will feature eminent scientists, internationally renowned - a must for networking and meeting scientists in your field.
Invited sessions for 2006
* The control of TSE's
Keynote speaker - Matthew Baylis, Institute for Animal Health: Bringing TSE's under control
Pay-off from genomic information
• Invited speakers - Graham Plastow, Chief Technology Officer, Sygen International - Genomic tools, what does the industry gain - examples from pigs
• Jack Dekkers, Iowa State University - Strategies for the use of molecular information in breeding programmes
• Jeff Sampson, Kennel Club - New molecular tools for dog breeders
Breeding for Farming Systems
Invited Speakers:
• Jennie Pryce, Livestock Improvement Corporation, New Zealand - Dairy breeding for grazing systems
• Erling Strandberg, SLU, Uppsula, Sweden - Genes and the environment
Responses to Nutrients
Four invited speakers include :
• Jan Dijkstra, Animal Nutrition Group, Wageningen, The Netherlands - Ruminants: description of food and its consequence
• Nic Friggens, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Denmark - Towards a biological basis for predicting nutrient partitioning: the dairy cow as an example
• Rob Gous, University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
• Ilias Kyriazakis, SAC Edinburgh
Energy conservation in poultry and pig production
Speakers from: Energy Information Centre, Newmarket
Background to carbon management, Climate change and regulations, Climate change agreements, Energy management and structured programmes for intensive livestock sector.
Applied Research, Animal Science Group, Wageningen UR, Lelystad.
Description of work at Lelystad where pig units using thermal solar energy, manure digestion and heat storage in an aquifer are being examined for their potential benefit.
University of Georgia, USA - Reducing energy use in intensive poultry buildings.
Gut Microbiology
For further information on this session please contact Caroline Rymer.
Speakers have been invited from the following organisations to give a paper on:
• M D Lee, University of Georgia, USA - Assessment of the effects of antimicrobial growth promoters on the intestinal microbial population in poultry
• J Hackstein, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands - Protozoal evolution in animal guts, from horses to cockroaches
• J Edwards, IGER, UK - Rumen bacterial diversity and its consequences in livestock agriculture
• J Booker, SAC Auchencruiv
e, UK - Influence of plant secondary compounds on intestinal microorganisms
• J Wallace, The Rowett, UK - Gut microbiology: broad genetic diversity, yet specific metabolic niches
Meat Quality
• Charlotte Rehfeldt, Research Institute for Biology of Farm Animals, Germany - Factors affecting muscle growth in pigs
• Kin Chow Chang, University of Glasgow - Molecular basis of skeletal muscle phenotype
• Peter Sheard, University of Bristol - Improving muscle quality during processing
• Mike Ellis, Illinois
President''s Sessions - Joint with Nutrition Society
Meat as a functional food
• Anne Marie Minihane, University of Reading - The role of meat lipids in human health
• Harry McArdle, The Rowett - Meat, Iron and its importance in pregnancy outcome
• H K Biesalski, Hohenheim University - Meat as a balanced source of mironutrients in a healthy diet
Food policy, diet and health
• An economists view of current and future diet and health strategies
• Product quality as an essential component of sustainable agriculture
• Retailers and their impact (role) in delivering food options to improve health
The Sir John Hammond Lecture
Animal Products and human health: present situation and future potential Dale Bauman, Cornell University